The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-01-25
Grand Memorial Services in honor of
the Late Gen. John Alexander
Logan COMMANDMENT
Chief. G. A. r.

to pay their last sad tribute of respect to The
memory of a deceased Chief-a gentleman
who was not only foremost General in war,
but statesman in time of peace man who
celved due acknowledgment from a grateful
people for the eminent abilities he displayed
IN his country's cause.
1t is needless to say that the hall was well
filled by an earnest and attentive audience,
who listened to the addresses in honor of the
deceased Chief with marked interest.
Post Commander LANES programme of
the details were well arranged and executed
with military precision. On either side Of
the President were seated Hon. G.. w. Mer-
| rill, Q. s. Minister Resident, and Rev. j. A.
Cruzar, the speakers of the evening.
The choir OF the Fort Street Church were
present, under the leadership of Professor
Yarndley, and comprised: Soprano-Mrs. j..
( Z. Hanford, Misses Hopper and Jennie
Grieve; altos-Mrs. Cruzan, Mrs. Brown and
Miss Parke; tenors-Messrs W. W. Hall and
J. T. Waterhouse, Jr.; basses-AIessrs H. W.
Morse and j. W. Yarndley; rianist-Myron
H. Jones.
The rear of the stage was draped with Amer
/ lean flags and the desk in front bore a draped
portrait of the deceased hero and stateman.
| The services OF the evening opened with an
impressive prayer by Comrade J. A. Cruzan
! after which the memorial services of the Post
we're gone through with.
The appointed ceremony was entered upon
! by the Commander, putting to the rank and
| file the question: For what purpose are you
gathered here To which answer was made:
! TO pay our last sad tribute TO our departed
! comrade.
Adiutant j. F. Noble then read the follow
ing resume of the military career of the de-
! ceased. CoErade John A. Logan was born
| February 8, 1924 in the town of Brownsville,
| State Of Illinois; enlisted as private in
! Company A, 1st Illinois Infantry, in 1916.
was promoted to Lieutenant for bravery;
was volunteer private at the battle of Bull
Run; raised to the 31st regiment of Illinois
Infantry and was commissioned its Colonel;
was promoted to Brigadier General March 8,
1862; was promoted to Major General Novem
Der %, 1862; Military Governor of Vicksburg
on the surrender of that city, after which he
commanded the 18th Army Corps, and was
a Major General at the close of the war. He
was elected Commander Chief of G. A. L.
in 1868: 18th May, 1869, was reelected, and
on the 18th May, 1870, was again reelected,
having served three years in that capacity.
Comrade Logan died December 26, 1886, aged
81 years and 10 months.
As each promotion was announced, the
drummer beat three rolls on the mutfied
drum, and at the conclusion long rolls fol-
lowed.
Then followed double trio, " Holy Re
deemer" by Mrs. Hanford. Misses NJ. Hop
per and Jennie Grieve, as sopranos, and Mrs.
Cruzan, Mrs. j. F. Brown and Miss B. Parke
as tenors-which was rendered with beauti-
full effect.
Comrade Geo. W. Merrill was then intro
duced, and spoke as follows:
Again on the American shores nation has
stepped aside from its usual avocation to
bend over the grave of one of its gallant de-
tenders. Again the muffied drums have re-
minded us that another eomrade has joined
the host on the camping grounds of eternity;
that worthy citizen, faithful friend and
brave soldier, in obedience to the bugle call
from the other side, had gone to stand be-
side those other heroes whose mortal lives
have been wrecked by disease or went out in
the smoke of battle.
When the announcement flashed over the
continent that General Logan was dead, all
seemed spontaneously to eXclaim, " An
honest, patriotic citizen; Jealous, brave sol
der is gone !"
Though in early life he was not rocked in
the cradle of luxury; though he did not en-
Joy the advantages of many of his comrades
IN receiving a military education under the
fostering care of the United States Govern
ment, yet when the cyclonic tempest of dis
union clouded the stars of our Union the
latent fires of patriotism burst FORTH the un
quenchable spirit illuminated many dark
places in our land, and it was General Logan
who pointed to the flag and persuaded hosts
of doubting Thomases to follow the straight
and narrow path of duty up to the defence
of the citadel wherein floated the banner in
delibly inscribed, /" The Union forever Dis
union never ~
At his birth nc angel dropped in his cradle
any special genius or peculiar talent as was
done with many others in American history,
but while stepping from the cradle to the
grave he demonstrated the possibilities of a
self-made man, When the Civil War burst
!, 4 st.
and though the greatest of them all was
found in tannery, yet out of Egypt" |
there came one of his ablest Lieutenants |
Born in rude log cabin in the then wild
west with only the rushing winds of the
prairie to join in the chorus of fond moth
er's lullaby, reared amid the hustle and tur-
moil of the frontier vet 10y iniomitable WILL !
answering fidelity to principle, he inscribed |
his name on the escutcheon of fame as one
of the strongest and bravest defenders of his |
country.
When history was being made faster than
ever before; when great spirits were strug- |
Cling for the ascendency, he SO inscribed his |
name on the title page of this generation
that the friction of years will not effaoe it |
and the tidal wave of death cannot wash it |
away from the sands upon the shores of time. |
In glancing back to his youth and early man |
hood one is almost irresistibly forced to con- |
clude that the pioneer experience, the buffet |
lngS OF the frontier moulded the character, |
gave courage and direction to the latent |
power within the youth and made it posi- |
BILE in after years for the man to bear the |
flag of his country VIGOROUSLY up through |
the roar and smoke of battle, made possible |
the endurance of the steel and leaden hail |
at Donaldson, the defiance to glittering steel |
and .whistling bullets on the ramparts of |
Yicksburg, and made possible such heroism
and devotion to country as changed routed |
troops into a victorious army at Atlanta.
Truthfully may it be said that in the late |
Civil War he was the true type of the citizen |
soldier. 1t was such as him, hearing the |
agonizing cry of the country in distress, |
trampled old political prejudices under their /
feet, caring neither for seed time or harvest,
but, hearing only the voice of Father Abra-
ham calling across the prairies OF the West |
for armed men to preserve intact the heri-
tage of the Father, shouted back, =" We are !
coming."
When war came, what he had lost from |
want of youthful training in the art of war, /
on the banks of the Hudson, was fully coun-
terbalanced by an ardent, patriotic and faith /
full determination to preserve the integrity !
of the Union. Although the country has
crowned another with the highest honors, yet /
the people will ever place Logan among the .